Asking Questions of The Answer Gang

In the world of hackers, the kind of answers you get to your technical
questions depends as much on the way you ask the questions as on the
difficulty of developing the answer. This guide will teach you how to ask
questions in a way that is likely to get you a satisfactory answer.
-- Eric S. Raymond, "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way"

The Answer Gang is a group of volunteers at the
Linux Gazette. It is the source of the Gazette's tech support columns,
The Mailbag, 2-Cent Tips, and The Answer Gang. To gather relevant
questions to respond to, we run an open mailing list where anyone is
welcome to ask their Linux-related questions.

Each member of The Gang has a set
of Linux-relevant interests, skills, and abilities; whether you get an
answer or not depends on how well you engage those. There is no guarantee
that your question will be answered at all: however, interesting questions
of broad scope (i.e., those that would be of interest to a number of our
readers), especially presented by folks who are pleasant, polite, and have
a sense of humor are not likely to be ignored.